Emma Coronel Aispuro

Emma Modesta Coronel Aispuro (born July 2, 1989) is an American model and former teenage beauty pageant queen. She is the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most powerful drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

 Biography 
Coronel was born July 2, 1989, near San Francisco, California, US, to Blanca Estela Aispuro Aispuro and Inés Coronel Barreras, a cattle rancher. She grew up in the remote Durango village of La Angostura, and has one sister named, Claudia Coronel Aispuro.

She entered the 2007 Coffee and Guava Festival beauty pageant in Canelas, Durango, Mexico. Each contestant was required to host a party in honor of her candidacy; Coronel held hers on Three Kings Day.  In this event, Coronel reportedly met Guzmán who traveled to Canelas to meet her. Both of them agreed to marry that day. Their wedding was held on her 18th birthday, on July 2, 2007 in La Angostura. 

In 2011, Coronel traveled to Lancaster, California, to give birth to twin girls, María Joaquina and Emali Guadalupe, at Antelope Valley Hospital. Guzmán's name was left off the children's birth certificates as he was a wanted fugitive in Mexico and the United States.

In February 2021, she was arrested in the United States on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully import and distribute illegal drugs, money laundering, and transacting business with a significant foreign narcotics trafficker designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Coronel served a three year prison sentence and was released in September 2023.

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